commercials and arms / army
 

Based upon the husar topic, where I found a smoking add :
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpo...2&postcount=23

hereby some more:

First one is a newspaper commercial from the Habsburg Austrian era 1915, I recently purchased

the second a post card from the Caucasus

Do some forum members also have similar items ?

Another one from 1918/19 by a cigarette and tobacco company called Murad

Memories
 

I used to smoke those when I was a youth along with Balkan Sobranie and De Rezke brands.

They could be purchased in downtown Boston at Ehrlich tobacconists.

Where the first pic showed Austrian WWI soldiers with a crate of ciggies, some additional info.
Since the Austrian / Habsburgian Empire took over Bosnia & Hercegowina in 1878, they incorporated the Ottoman sword into the offical Coat of Arms of Bosnia & Hercegovina.

As the tobaaco of the Hercegovina ( Herzegovina Flor) was one of the best, the exploitation went without saying very well...

Hereby some brands with some fancy "Orientalism" display or lay out (obviously for commercial reasons...)

some more, from WWI, WWII and 2 pics from Nam with the last a package of cigarettes from Private R J Barry, 6 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment

a few more from Austria, the Middle East and the last a British brand called Gurkha Cigars

although nothing to do with the topic, nevertheless a very interesting brand and fellow "De Rezke"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Reszke#